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MUHAMMAD-ALI v. FINAL CALL, INC.

No. 15-2963.

832 F.3d 755 (2016)

Jesus MUHAMMAD-ALI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FINAL CALL, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 10, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Charles Staes , Samuel S. Park , Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lewis Myers, Jr. , Law Offices of Lewis Myers, Jr., Berve Power, Jr. , Power & Dixon, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Carpenters have a saying: measure twice, cut once. This litigation might have been averted if that adage had been observed here. In 1984, Jesus Muhammad-Ali painted a portrait of the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. In 2013, Ali sued The Final Call, a newspaper that describes itself as the "propagation arm of the...

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